Though crippled and bent, Hokusai still rose early and continued painting until well after dark. The name he called himself was Gakyo Rojin, "old man mad about painting."

HOKUSAI:
The Man Who Painted a Mountain
by Deborah Kogan Ray
Frances Foster Books
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001

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